Subventions financées

Mood disorders such as depression and bipolar disorder affect over 350 million people around the world.

Autistic individuals are disproportionately under-represented in post-secondary institutions, with only 35% of students with autism pursuing post-secondary education.

Background: Transition from the pediatric to adult health care system is a multi-faceted process that should include medical and psychosocial considerations.

Family caregivers of people with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs) often experience stress and mental health difficulties (e.g., anxiety, depression)

TDP-43 (transactive response DNA-binding protein 43) is one of the few genes highly associated with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a chronic psychiatric illness, ranking in the top 10 causes of disability and mortality worldwide, due to suicide and cardiovascular death.

The goal of this project is to develop new principles to treat brain disease and investigate brain function using non-invasive neurostimulation, without the side-effects of drugs.

Males are 4X more likely than females to develop Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), suggesting that the biology of sex development contributes to the risk of developing this neurodevelopmental condition.

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) the most common form of brain cancer in adults with very low survival of only 15 months with less than 5% of patients surviving more than 5 years. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation are the treatments currently used but recurrence is very common, often with tumors that are resistant to treatment.